Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, has kicked off the company's annual GTC conference with a series of AI announcements--including a doubling-down of its UK investments. NVIDIA is investing heavily in the UK's accelerating AI sector. The company announced its acquisition of legendary semiconductor giant Arm for $40 billion back in September along with the promise to open a new AI centre in Cambridge. "We will create an open centre of excellence in the area once home to giants like Isaac Newton and Alan Turing, for whom key NVIDIA technologies are named," Huang said at the time. "We want to propel Arm – and the UK – to global AI leadership."

So I laid my head down last night after a huge day, to read an email from NVIDIA that opens with "Get Amped for Latest Platform Breakthroughs in AI, Deep Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics and Professional Graphics". Yes everyone – GET AMPED for the Ampere GPU architecture unveil at the now-heavily-delayed GPU Technology Conference with NVIDIA boss and CEO Jensen Huang. The company will be hosting its GTC 2020 keynote with Huang and his legendary opening keynote on May 14, at 6AM PST -- all on YouTube thanks to coronavirus. Huang will "highlight the company's latest innovations in AI, high performance computing, data science, autonomous machines, healthcare and graphics during the recorded keynote". If you are expecting NVIDIA to unveil a new Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070, think again.

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